US Patent Issued to Siltectra on July 21 for "Method for producing a layer of solid material" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,429, issued on July 21, was assigned to Siltectra GmbH (Dresden, Germany).

"Method for producing a layer of solid material" was invented by Wolfram Drescher (Dresden, Germany), Jan Richter (Dresden, Germany) and Christian Beyer (Freiberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a layer of solid material includes: providing a solid body having opposing first and second surfaces, the second surface being part of the layer of solid material; generating defects by means of multiphoton excitation caused by at least one laser beam penetrating into the solid body via the second surface and acting in an inner structure ...